Per John Kiriakou, Meredith Whittaker is working on a new business model for the encrypted-messaging app Signal, as part of what he frames as a necessary search for secure communications alternatives — and, in his assessment, “what she’s doing is working.”[1] His remarks came in response to a fellow panelist’s question — itself prompted by Andrew Feinstein’s recent talk at the same venue on the multiple factors that ended apartheid — about whether activists should look beyond leaks and data toward other forms of resistance.[2][3]
He contrasts her effort with ProtonMail’s own attempt at a new business model, saying ProtonMail was compromised through an intergovernmental agreement that allowed authorities to obtain information about who was communicating with whom.[1]